The 451 Group just published a “glass half empty” assessment of the open-source database market. One massive takeaway? Open-source databases are widely used, but not yet deeply used.
One of the key findings is that open source software has had a superficial impact on the enterprise database market in that
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I’ve long preferred OpenOffice for my presentations. It has functionality (like the ability to enter a group of objects I’ve grouped and edit just one of them) that I simply can’t get in Microsoft Office, and the performance is quite good. I’m therefore happy to see version 2.4 hit public release. The good just got superior, as The Register reports:
The OpenOffice.org 2.4 database, Base, now supports MS-Access 2007, while capabilities for MySQL, Oracle JDBC and native HSQL databases have been improved.
PDF handling has been improved with five export options, and Writer has been rounded out with improved “find and replace”, new keyboard short cuts, and the capability to set options for printing hidden or place-holder text and for following hyperlinks.
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In case you wanted the slides from my opening remarks at the Open Source Business Conference, you can access them here. I’ve stored them with Adobe Share, a cool service powered by Alfresco. (It’s also cool that Adobe mentioned what they’re using, as Dave notes.)
Unfortunately, I …
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Having had a day to ruminate about the Open Source Business Conference 2008, a few key takeaways advocate themselves. It was by far the best OSBC yet, with a far more diverse audience and talking faculty that we’ve had before. This naturally leads to a diverse set of “conclusions” arising from the event:
- Enterprises love open source but the business models necessary to fuel both their happiness and that of the vendors still need a lot of work.
Jon Williams of Kaplan Test suggested in his keynote, as Dirk Hohndel captures, that the more happy he is with his commercial open-source software, the less likely he’ll be to pay for it. Why? Because his developers will acquire the expertise over time to support themselves and because the product will mature to the point that support will be less necessary.
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